I wanted to make you aware of a survey about personal knowledge management that’s currently underway that would benefit from your participation. Here are the details along with relevant background.
Survey for Knowledge Management (KM) Practitioners and Researchers
Hello! My name is Kate Bower, and I’m a graduate student studying knowledge management, strategic change and leadership [...]
I have so been on this call. Thank you Jessica for sharing it.
Thanks to Richard Dale, Dave Grady "from the annual Citizens Bank Employee Talent Show." Have you been on this call?
"The conference call" Jessica Lipnack Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:00:48 GMT
Learn from the best. Here’s the first of a four-part series on storytelling from Ira Glass of This American Life. Here he begins with the two fundamental building blocks of good story.
A skill worth developing as far as you are capable, although few of us will reach his level of mastery.
Part 2, Part 3, Part [...]
Tagged StoryGood Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst, Sutton, Robert I.
I’m becoming a fanboy of Bob Sutton, an engineering professor at Stanford who co-founded the d.school there. It started when i read The Knowing-Doing Gap : How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action, which he co-authored with organizational [...]
By way of my friend and colleague Espen Andersen. I’ve found that I’ve already used this story in several conversations and that I find myself mulling it over regularly in recent days.
The Edge question this year is "How has the Internet changed the way you think?". The result is eminently readable – my [...]
Here’s a pointer to an excellent interview with Alan Kay. As always, Alan shares some deep insights about technology innovation and the willingness to take on risk (he’s not confident in the ability of most organizations to tolerate risk no matter how small the level of funding involved).
Anyone with an interest in the continuing role [...]
8 Things We Hate About IT: How to Move Beyond the Frustrations to Form a New Partnership with IT, Cramm, Susan
The tensions between business leaders and their IT counterparts remains an evergreen topic. Susan Cramm, a former CIO herself, weighs in on the topic in a way that’s revealing and productive in two ways. [...]
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, Shirky, Clay
Anyone who can use lolcats to make a relevant and provocative intellectual point is worth paying attention to. Clay Shirky pulls it off in his latest book. Here’s his point:
Let’s nominate the process of making a lolcat as the stupidest possible creative act…. The [...]
The discussion about organizational culture in knowledge management and Enterprise 2.0 efforts is evolving in useful and pragmatic ways. The earliest discussions ignored culture entirely and implicitly assumed that technology would magically shape the organization as needed. The next round of discussion identified sharing as a desirable global cultural characteristic. If you were in a [...]
Tagged observable work, process, visibilityI took a brief break from writing some other material to view the following sent from my good friend Morry Fiddler. Worth a few minutes of your time going into a holiday weekend here in the U.S.
